New Report Released

Now Available

REMOTE CONTROL: Governance Lessons
for and from Small, Insular, and Remote Regions

How does one transform small size and relative isolation into a
powerful combination for sustainable growth and prosperity?

Some islands and rural regions have already done so. Winning tools
and strategies deployed by these middle-level governance structures
include: 'scaling up' of municipal units; developing tourist and
computer-driven industries; engaging strategically with their
diaspora; branding niche products and services; facilitating
'boutique', small-scale manufacturing; limiting local firm rivalry;
and, overall, deploying a creative 'resourcefulness of
jurisdiction'. The papers in this collection flesh out these tools
and strategies. They do so by unpacking and challenging received
wisdom; charting out the parameters of effective government;
teasing in the critical role of empowered local communities and the
engagement of civil society with the multiple levels of
decision-making of the state. The book's message emphasizes a
proactive, creative, and assertive approach to governance; one that
aims to instill a sense of effficiacy to acheive remote
control.

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The Editors:
GODFREY BALDACCHINO is Canada Research Chair in Island Studies and
Professor of Sociology at the University of Price Edward Island,
Canada;
ROB GREENWOOD is Director of the Leslie Harris Centre of Regional
Policy and Development at Memorial University of Newfoundland,
Canada;
LAWRENCE FELT is Professor of Sociology at Memorial University of
Newfoundland, Canada.